Re: SIZE function for FST (DOS) compiler?

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From: Jeffrey E Stoner
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 05:45

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Ronald Snelgrove (ronald@newton.physics.BrockU.CA) wrote:
: To anyone using the Fitted Software Modula-2 compiler for DOS:
:   I have already looked through all of the definition modules for this and
: couldn't find it, so I'm hoping that I have just missed it.  I was wondering
: if there was a function that when given a data type, would return  the number
: of bytes required to store that type, ie SIZE(INTEGER) would return 2.  This
: would be the equivalent to the TSIZE function on the Macintosh MetroWerks
: compiler, if that helps anyone.  

Well, in the manual, pages 21-22 lists the amount of storage for each data
type.  Simply count 'em up.

Jeff

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